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The Department of Teacher Education offers programs in Graduate Studies, Psychology, and Teacher Education for students wishing to enter related professions or to prepare for further study in master’s degree programs. In addition to degrees in Psychology, Elementary Education, and Technology Education, the department offers course work and field experiences for seven other departments’ Secondary Education programs and is the de facto head of the university’s Teacher Education Program.

The department coordinates with the West River Teacher Center to offer professional development graduate credit courses for in-service teachers; and it offers 15 credits of graduate-level course work in education for transfer to master’s programs in education at other institutions. Part of the department’s leadership for the university’s Teacher Education Program involves maintaining program approval from North Dakota’s teacher licensing agency, the Education Standards and Practices Board; and accredited status from the national accreditor for teacher preparation programs, the Council for the Accreditation of Educator Preparation.

The Department of Teacher Education is the contemporary embodiment of the university’s original mission and identity as Dickinson State Normal School, created in 1916 by constitutional amendment and opened in 1918 as an institution for the training of elementary and secondary school teachers.